Giant wormlike rubber micelles

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5404, 1999, Pages 960-963

  Won, You Yeon ^a   Ted Davis, H ^a   Bates, Frank S ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER; FREE RADICAL; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; RUBBER; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CROSS LINKING; MICELLE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 0033548243     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5404.960     Document Type: Article

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